Transparency Groups: Obama Makes Strides but Still Has Work to Do

In November, we wrote about the transparency to-do list (PDF) that open-records advocates gave President Obama.

So three months after the inauguration, how has the administration done so far?

While the Obama administration is clearly more transparent than the previous administration, it still has a ways to go to accomplish what transparency groups recommended for its first 100 days, according to an assessment released today by OMB Watch.

On the plus side, President Obama hit the ground running on transparency issues:

Revoke President Bush's executive order that limited access to presidential records. Check. (Inside his first 100 days, Obama also authorized the release of over 250,000 pages of previously sealed presidential records.)

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